Cinch-ring.



G. W. PARMETER.

CINCH RING.

APPLmATIoN FILED Dno.a.1s1o.

1,035,725. Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

(inventor GEORGE W. PARMETER, 0F SHERIDAN, WYOMING.

CINCH-RING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug'. 13,1912.

Application filed December 8, 1910. Serial No. 596,273.

To all wiz-0m it may concern Beit known that I, GEORGE IV. PARMETER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Sheridan, in the county ofSheridan, State of Wyoming, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cinch-Rings; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to cinch rings and has for its object to providea cinch ring that will be so arranged as to permit of the cinch strapbeine' shifted to different positions in the ring so as to bring at eachof the changes in position, a new wearing surface of the strap inengagement with the ring.

A further object is to provide a cinch ring that will facilitatechanging the cinch strap to its various positions while out on a rangeso that sending of the saddle to a repair shop for this purpose isobviated.

On many of the ordinary saddles now in use the cinch strap is simply around ring which secures together the saddle top and side cinch riggingand the cinch strap, all these straps remaining constantly in the sameposition. In another form of cinch ring, two cinch rings are employedbeing connected by a straight bar, the cinch strap being engaged witheither of the rings and with the bar. Now in the first form noadjustment of the cinch strap at all is possible, and in the second formthe bulk of the device and length of time necessary to make the threeadjustments of the cinch strap more than counterbalances the value ofthe adjustability.

The present invention to attain the above advantages and overcome theabove mentioned defects in ordinary cinch rings contemplates providing asingle elliptical ring having interior division walls that divide thering into three compartments either of the compartments receiving thecinch strap, these division walls presenting rounded surfaces to thestrap in all of its various adjusted positions whereby the long life ofthe strap is promoted.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, Figure 1is a side elevation of a saddle equipped with a cinch ring constructedin accordance with my invention, Fig. 2, is a side elevation of thecinch ring.

Referring now to the drawing in which like characters of referencedesignate similar parts in the views shown, 10 designates a saddle, 11the top cinch rigging, 12 the side cinch rigging, and 13 the cinchstrap, these parts being of the usual and well known kind and forming nopart of the present invention.

The cinch ring 14 comprising the subject mattei' of this invention isshown to be elliptical in contour, and is provided internally with aY-shaped division wall 15, this wall dividing the ring into what will behereinafter referred to as an elliptical compartment 1G, a triangularcompartment 17 and a substantially obovate compartment 18. The sidecinch rigging 12 is engaged in the elliptical compartment 1G and the topcinch rigging 11 in the obovate compartment 18. Now when a center re rigis desired, the cinch strap is engaged in the elliptical compartment 16,and when a spanish or as some times called seven eighths rig is desired,is engaged in the obovate compartment 18, and finally when a middle r1gor what is some times called a three fourths rig is desired, the cinchstrap is engaged in the triangular' compartment 17. The purpose of allthese rigs, or different engagements of the cinch strap in the variouscompartments of the cinch ring, is to shift the cinch strap to a newposition upon the animal and thus relieve the animal of the constantpressure of the cinch strap on but one place. By this shifting of thecinch strap from one compartment to another, a new bearing surface ofthe strap is brought to engage the walls of the ring and it will here benoted that the walls of all the compartments are curvilinear in outlineso that no edges are presented for lacerating the cinch strap.

It will be noted by referring to Fig. 2 that the bottom walls of all thecompartments are nearly in alinement, so that when the cinch strap isshifted from one compartment to another the length of the strap is notappreciably diminished or lengthened while at the same time the relativeangular dispositions of the three saddle straps namely side rigging, toprigging, and cinch strap are varied and support the riders leg in a newposition thereby resting the rider.

It will be noted that the cinch strap may be quickly removed from anycompartment of the ring and placed in any other compartment with minimumlabor and time eX- pended, as no adjustment of the strap itself must bemade as in old devices such as the device comprising two cinch ringsconnected by a bar, the present invention making it possible for a riderto dismount out on a range and adjust the cinch strap.

What is claimed, is

An elliptical Cinch ring having an interior Y-shaped division wall, t-heshank and branches of which are curvilinear in length and divide thering into an elliptical, an

approximately triangular, and an approximately obovate compartment, thejuncture of the branches with the'shank being arranged to one side ofthe greatest axis of 15 Copies of this patent may be obtained for fivecents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

